taylor swift and friendship bracelets

The other day my bestie and I trekked over to my old flatmates new house to check it out and hang out after not seeing each other for 3 months. The walk was much longer than I expected and well the sun was out blazing so we turned up at their door hot, sweaty and in much need of a glass of water... or four. We sat out in their cute little patio while guzzling our weight in water and achieving a rather nice burn across my entire chest, shoulders and face. I must have looked a right picture! 
Eventually the sun went behind some clouds and wouldn't come out so we ventured inside to look through the collection of boxes they discovered in their attic. Under a mountain of dry highlighters and pots of various glitter we found some of your average cross stitching thread and decided to make friendship bracelets. You know those ones that every girl learns to make in like year 7, or every girl but us as we had to google how to make them. So we three girls sat with Taylor Swift playing in the background for few hours while our very handy guy made the dinner. (I question why I ever decided not to flat with him this year om nom nom)
Don't judge my first attempt at a bracelet okay it was my very first try and for half of it I couldn't attach it to anything so it was flying all over the place, but I thought I did okay. I'm gonna try a few more on my own I think just so that I can do it. 

Another year older, another year wiser?

It was my 19th birthday yesterday and weirdly not the first birthday I've spent away from my family even though I've only just moved to Uni but this was different to all those other times at camps and things. I guess it was just that I wouldn't be going home in a few days and can have my presents and cards then instead. Here it would be another month and a half til I went home so my mum sent me down a few little presents (I'd received my iPad mini a few weeks ago) and a few cards that had already arrived. Unfortunately as most of my cards are airmailed from England they didn't arrive in time for when Mum sent me down the package but hey ho I can get over it. 

My flatmates and Louise went to the big deal of making me cakes; flatmates cute chocolate heart shaped cakes and Louise made cute little cupcakes with the writing on above. Both were equally yummy and god it felt good to have cake! On the day I trudged off to uni to endure class that I really would miss a lot if I skipped like I was planning to and waited patiently until freedom. Louise and I went out to dinner at Nandos and then went and saw Oz: the Great and Powerful. Both were really good and the cinema turned out to be a lot cheaper than Tauranga so we've made a pact to go more often as treats. 

Overall it was a pretty decent birthday besides not being able to be with my family I did end up skyping them so that was alright hehe x